You have to cap pax levels because your aeroplanes can't carry pax luggage and fuel from your new super base BHD to the med without tech stopping in EMA that's going to be a good move.
Granite city express
I can remember a significant number of times we left luggage golf clubs and guns behind on the Embraer due to max zero fuel weight so you are hardly talking from a position of strength and also the charters with ABZ crew that went to Portugal that didn't have a hope in hell of getting to destination without a tech stop and the man cag which was much the same. I am ex regional but don't throw stones in glass houses.
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